NCAA: You Don't Want Kentucky In Your Bracket

Even though Kentucky's Wildcats are No. 1 and on the verge of a perfect season, you don't want them in your office NCAA bracket. WSJ's Ben Cohen explains why. Photo: Getty

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... at that time of the year when your colleague start pestering you to enjoy the NC double A optical if you're like ... me will always win ... with an app the WSJ's Dan Cullen is here with some tricks to improve your odds in the office will and think famous for being here of course I remember when will they see or don't pay Kentucky why ... I seen this before I ... yes I'm and that is that you why you should not take them so their everyone's ... right there the overwhelming favorite to win the tournament undefeated ... the going for ... the first forty in a record in the history of man's talked out of the first undefeated season since ... nineteen seventy six passed that has had them around thirty five percent chance to actually win the whole thing ... but what they often say is that that is exactly the reason you shouldn't take them in your office pool because if everybody takes them ... when you do yourself a very small margin of error taxing Way ... but if you ... if you ... don't heed the wisdom of the crowd to use it when everyone else is Agni and by some miracle Kentucky loses here in a way ... and and it's basically a simple is that how ... it's actually when the office pool if you don't take the team that wins the ONS area are impossible that specially in the year where there's a good team I Kentucky ... I'm ... you know if if if ... I if the number eight seed wins and nobody has and ... then maybe you can win but you know if Kentucky were to win ... Iowa ... and everyone has them you never know when but if they don't when you know your year you mail the teens that's can when your when ... the good alternative to Kentucky at least I was there yet so I'm so there you know the other number one and Number two seeds are all pretty good and some of them might not have to play Kentucky like you know other people might take care of them before they would have to play it so ... aam so Arizona is about fourteen percent chance to win ... you have Wisconsin Virginia Villanova all little bit below then ... I'm you know clearly there's there's never been in the team in this term and that's as good as Kentucky or as good of a pet as Kentucky but there are some alternatives out there and and those of the teams that ... the melodies that are specially in larger pools and smaller pools it's ok to Kentucky but as the bigger you get the more you wanna stay with ... forty eight when your backside until that is one of the twenty ish thing things is that ... you wanna wait for as long as possible you wanna wait until Wednesday afternoon Thursday morning because when you're taking you know to spur six ... you really wanna pick the team that is good and not everyone else is taking so he kind of a sense of what the general public is taken by then ... and you wanna take the team ... that our who whose ... probability of winning is much higher than the number of people that actually experiencing a shrewd strategy and that telling thing say much for joining us Your